Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hmp-commands: use long for begin and length in dump-guest-memory

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Suraj Jitindar Singh (sjitindarsingh@gmail.com) wrote:
> The dump-guest-memory command is used to dump an area of guest memory
> to a file, the piece of memory is specified by a begin address and
> a length. These parameters are specified as ints and thus have a maximum
> value of 4GB. This means you can't dump the guest memory past the first
> 4GB and instead get:
> (qemu) dump-guest-memory tmp 0x100000000 0x100000000
> 'dump-guest-memory' has failed: integer is for 32-bit values
> Try "help dump-guest-memory" for more information
> 
> This limitation is imposed in monitor_parse_arguments() since they are
> both ints. hmp_dump_guest_memory() uses 64 bit quantities to store both
> the begin and length values. Thus specify begin and length as long so
> that the entire guest memory space can be dumped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjtindarsingh@gmail.com>
> ---
>  hmp-commands.hx | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hmp-commands.hx b/hmp-commands.hx
> index 0734fea931..3b5c1f65db 100644
> --- a/hmp-commands.hx
> +++ b/hmp-commands.hx
> @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ ETEXI
>  
>      {
>          .name       = "dump-guest-memory",
> -        .args_type  = "paging:-p,detach:-d,zlib:-z,lzo:-l,snappy:-s,filename:F,begin:i?,length:i?",
> +        .args_type  = "paging:-p,detach:-d,zlib:-z,lzo:-l,snappy:-s,filename:F,begin:l?,length:l?",
>          .params     = "[-p] [-d] [-z|-l|-s] filename [begin length]",
>          .help       = "dump guest memory into file 'filename'.\n\t\t\t"
>                        "-p: do paging to get guest's memory mapping.\n\t\t\t"

OK, so hmp_dump_guest_memory in hmp.c already uses int64_t for both,
as does the qmp_dump_guest_memory it calls; so this looks OK.

Can you repost this please with the correct sign off that I see you
tried to fix in the following mail; best if we get it in the one mail.

Dave

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK